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The nation’s population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation's founding during the first year of the pandemic as the coronavirus curtailed immigration, delayed pregnancies and killed hundreds of thousands of residents, according to figures released Tuesday. The United States grew by only 0.1 percent, with an additional 392,665 added to the country’s [...]
Veterans from AMVETS posts throughout Ohio last week pooled their efforts to transport everyday provisions and monetary donations totaling $9,500 to western Kentucky residents affected by the E4-rated tornado that tore through the region a week earlier. Founded at the close of World War II as a service organization for both veterans and the communities [...]
ROTTERDAM JUNCTION, N.Y. (AP) — Pushed up to the breakfast table, Betty Bednarowski folds and refolds her napkin with studied intensity, softly singing "Winter Wonderland" without the words, the same as she did in March and July and September. Dessert today is a tiny cup of pudding, like yesterday's, with seven pills Bednarowski can't swallow, [...]
TAHOE CITY, Calif. (AP) — Women of the Washoe Tribe have long fought against the word "squaw," a racist slur that for more than half a century was part of the name of a famous Sierra ski resort. The resort north of Tahoe City, Calif., was called Squaw Valley long before it became famous for [...]
School systems nationwide rely on high-level expertise from the U.S. Secret Service and others as they work to stay vigilant for signs of potential student violence, training staff, surveilling social media and urging others to tip them off. When it comes to how to respond to a possible threat, however, it's the local educators who [...]
When Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston resumed in-person services late last year, after a seven-month halt due to COVID-19, there were Sundays when only three worshippers showed up, according to the pastor, Meredith Mills. Since then, attendance has inched back up, but it's still only about half the pre-pandemic turnout of 160 or 170, [...]
CUMBERLAND, Maine (AP) — The holiday season is shining brightly during the pandemic as businesses pour money into extravagant light shows to spread cheer. From Maine to California, more lights shows have launched during the pandemic, and they're more elaborate than ever, with sparkly spectacles that the comedic character Clark Griswold from "National Lampoon's Christmas [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's pick to run the nation's highway safety agency pledged Thursday to attack a crisis of fatal car crashes by implementing safety rules to deter impaired driving while scrutinizing fast-emerging automated technologies, such as in Tesla vehicles, that could put people at risk. Steven Cliff, a former California pollution regulator, [...]
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — Middle schooler Rarity Cournoyer stood at the heart of the Red Cloud Indian School campus and chanted a prayer song firmly and solemnly in the Lakota language — in a place where past generations of students were punished for speaking their mother tongue. Her classmates stood around her at a [...]
Nathalie Charles, even in her mid-teens, felt unwelcome in her Baptist congregation, with its conservative views on immigration, gender and sexuality. So, she left. "I just don't feel like that gelled with my view of what God is and what God can be," said Charles, an 18-year-old of Haitian descent who identifies as queer and [...]